Tag Archive: Windows 7

Jun
13

Upgrading your hard disk in Windows 7

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Tweet One of the developers in the office had 2 x 70GB HDD’s in his machine, not ideal at all! especially when a lot of developers these days have VM’s to test things out on. He asked me to order up a couple of new HDD’s for him, which was not a problem. The problem …

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May
12

Booting from a VHD

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Tweet I recently looked at creating a VHD in Windows 7 and then booting from it. I could not believe how simple it actually was. My VHD file contained an Install of Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent. Here’s what I did Step 1: Created the Virtual Disk This can either done through the computer manager …

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Feb
23

Running PHP and MySQL on My Windows 7 Laptop

Tweet I re-installed my laptop the other day as it had become pretty slow and things were a miss on it, you know how things go after playing around with lots of different apps. Any how, one of the problems I had was that I could not install PHP via the Microsoft Web App Gallery, …

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